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| DATE | 2003-04-25 |
| FROM | Michael Richardson
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] RE: Flyers
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Thanks Joe. I like the flyer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Villari [mailto:joev_nylxs-at-pipeline.com]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 8:12 AM
To: Ruben Safir
Cc: Marco Scoffier; hangout; MRICHARDSON-at-abc.state.ny.us
Subject: Re: [hangout] RE: Flyers
OO is a word processing program NOT a page layout one. Although it is
useful for doing generic flyers, letters, papers and manuscripts; if you
show them to a graphic artist, production artist or designer there
reaction would all be the same, "Done In Word."
I didn't see anything done for the expo but I'm guessing it was the
usual sub-standard, quality that OO, Word, Corel, etc produce.
I tried doing this in Scribus but for some stupid reason it would not
print the logo. So I recreated it in Illustrator and it printed fine but
you needed to have a white background in the picture box which lead to
other design problems. Plus Scribus doesn't have, at least anywhere that
I could see, a spell check; which was needed. You could not control and
flow text, graphics and elements the way I did in OO easily. After
trying for many hours it was just a plain waste of time when I did what
needed doing in about an hour.
Sorry to say that quality graphic design is still not supported well
enough by Free Software to be of any real value. I also feel that if
NYLXS wants to be considered a true professional organization we need to
produce literature that reflects this. After all, are you going to fork
over your hard earned $$$ to someone who's promotional material looks
like his kid did it.
Believe me, if I could get the results from Srcibus, GIMP and a vector
drawing program that I need; I'm there. I've been searching for this for
5 years and it's just not there yet.
Joe
Ruben Safir wrote:
> We've done a dozen flyers with the OO word processor.
>
> I'm interested in knowing how this flyer was harder to do than say
> the 8 we did for Linux Expo?
>
>
> Ruben
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 07:47:37PM -0400, Joe Villari wrote:
>
>>I put two files in the nylxs.com/docs folder named kings_flyer.ps and
>>kings_flyer.pdf. Yes this is the flyer.
>>
>>Now for the rest of the news; I had to do it using non-free non-open
>>source software. I spent 5 hours with OO and Scribus and could not get
>>anything I liked or wanted. I was able to bang it out in 1 hour using
>>Quark and Illustrator.
>>
>>Sorry but there as just too many limitations in OO and Scribus is just
>>not there yet.
>>
>>Joe
>>
>>____________________________
>>NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
>>Fair Use -
>>because it's either fair use or useless....
>>NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
>
>
____________________________
NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
____________________________
NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
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